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What happens when you tell a child they can't have something? They want it more, right? And do you believe that adults are more than just children in bigger bodies? I assure you, they're really not.
Because educated personal trainers are often successful at helping your members achieve the results they seek, the time has come to make working with them a little harder.
While that may seem counterintuitive, I guarantee you by putting your trainers on a pedestal and letting your members know that not everyone qualifies to work with them, you will increase your personal training revenues.
Here's how to do it and how to keep your members thrilled at the same time.
1. Change the culture of your club. Emphasize to members that the facility they belong to employs only highly educated fitness professionals who are dedicated to their success. Make it a source of pride as opposed to most clubs, which position their trainers as an afterthought or necessary evil.
2. Make it known from the day the member joins your club that the personal training department is ultra-exclusive. If the member wants individual attention, he or she needs to be willing to become a walking, talking billboard for the trainer he or she works with.
In other words, if they aren't serious about getting results, they won't be allowed into the program. Now that may seem harsh, but it's all in how you say it. The proper way is to let them know the club will not allow members to spend thousands of their hard earned dollars with one of their top fitness professionals if they aren't ready to do the hard work ahead. Tell them you won't allow them to waste their money, and they'll love you for it.
3. Truly understand that people want what they can't have. Your members will literally fight for the right to become a client. In fact, chances are you'll have a waiting list for personal training before too long.
It's equally important to understand members who aren't working with a trainer are probably keeping an eye on the results of personal training clients. In other words, for every client who fails to follow the program laid out by their trainer, your staff's reputation gets worse and worse. Why would the member ever spend more dollars in your clubs for a service they see as worthless?
Yes, that's right, every single personal training session that takes place in your club is, in fact, marketing.
4. Promote the success of the personal training clients as much as possible. Post before-and-after pictures throughout the club, sprinkle testimonials into your marketing pieces and distribute T-shirts to personal training clients to wear at the club when they have reached certain weight loss goals.
5. Position your trainers as leading experts. Ask them to write articles and give presentations. Nothing establishes credibility faster than public speaking and writing. The fitness professionals working at your club should be writing simple how-to articles to distribute to members as well as local publications. They can deliver presentations within the club and in the community, too. This establishes the trainer as an expert and helps your members understand that there is credibility behind your personal training department.
6. You should also promote your trainers as experts through the media. Your club should have media contacts. Let them know the fitness professionals on your staff are available for comments and can provide story ideas.
7. Understand this only works if you have fitness professionals who are worth the fees they charge. If they can't deliver results then do not try to "velvet rope" your personal training department.
Why not do something different? If you can't compete with the large chains on price, then you'd better deliver something they can't. So how about exclusivity and results?


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June 14, 2011
Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
The United Kingdom has a long history of doctors who foreswore the Hippocratic Oath and opted instead to commit at least one murder. During the time of Jack the Ripper, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was both a serial killer and a blackmailer.
by Robert Walsh
"First Do No Harm…'"– A fundamental part of the Hippocratic Oath sworn by all doctors.
"I am Jack The…" – The last words of the "Lambeth Poisoner," Doctor Thomas Neill Cream, as the gallows trapdoors fell.
The United Kingdom has, for some unknown reason, a long history of doctors who foreswore the Hippocratic Oath and opted instead to commit at least one murder. William Palmer, William Pritchard, "Buck" Ruxton, George Lamson and, most notorious of all, Doctor Crippen, right through to Harold Shipman a few years ago (although Crippen's medical credentials are at best somewhat dubious as he was a purveyor of quack remedies and, some say, involved in illegal abortions),. Dr. Crippen is by far the most notorious, but he's merely one of many. But Doctor Thomas Neill Cream, AKA the "Lambeth Poisoner," while largely forgotten except by true crime enthusiasts, was once as infamous as any of them.
Cream was born in May, 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland and would have his date with the hangman in November 1892. He spent his early life in Canada outside Quebec City after his family emigrated in 1854. Cream attended McGill University in Montreal and studied medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital in London after returning to the UK in 1876. Even as a student Cream had a particularly strong motive for leaving Canada as he had recently married a woman named Flora Brooks, whom he made pregnant and then almost killed while carrying out an illegal abortion on her. Having been forced to marry her at gunpoint by her family, Flora would die in 1877 of tuberculosis, the first of more than one death of which Cream would be blamed but never convicted.
Having finished his studies at St. Thomas's, Cream moved to Edinburgh to continue his training. He qualified as both a physician and surgeon in 1878 and then, presumably feeling that the trouble over Flora Brooks had died down, returned to Canada and resided in London, Ontario. It wasn't long before Cream picked up another suspected victim. Cream was subject to allegations of his having an affair with a local woman, Kate Gardener, and before long Gardener was found dead in an alleyway behind Cream's surgery, pregnant and having been poisoned with chloroform with an empty bottle of the drug lying beside her body. Cream claimed Gardener was expecting the child of a prominent local businessman, but when Cream himself was accused of both trying to blackmail the businessman and of murdering Kate Gardener, he soon decided that Canada was no longer safe for him and moved south to the United States.
Cream arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1880 and soon had a thriving practice not far from Chicago's notorious red-light district, offering illegal abortions to Chicago's prostitutes. It was in August of 1880 that he was again under suspicion after a local prostitute, Mary Ann Faulkner, died from suspected surgical complications after an illegal abortion that Cream was accused of performing. Cream managed to escape prosecution owing to the lack of evidence against him. In December, 1880, Cream was in yet more trouble after another of his patients, a Miss Stack, also died after having been treated by Cream. Cream was again under suspicion, especially when it emerged that he had tried to blackmail the local pharmacist who made up Miss Stack's prescription by suggesting Miss Stack died from incorrectly prepared medicine rather than any treatment by Cream himself and demanding money to not make his allegations public.
Enter Mr. and Mrs. Stott, also from Chicago, in early 1881. Cream had taken Mrs. Stott as his mistress and both Dr Cream and Mrs. Stott felt that her husband had become too great an inconvenience to endure any longer. In July 1881, Daniel Stott went to Cream (presumably not suspecting his wife and Cream of being lovers) for a remedy to treat Stott's epilepsy. Stott promptly died of strychnine poisoning. The death of Daniel Stott was first put down to natural causes, at least until emerged that Cream had tried (again) to blackmail the pharmacist who prepared the prescription by threatening to accuse him of botching the prescription's preparation. Cream and Julia Stott were both arrested and Julia Stott then turned on her erstwhile lover, blamed him for supplying the strychnine with which she had poisoned her husband and promptly turned State's evidence against him at his trial in the hope of avoiding a potential trial herself for capital murder. Cream was convicted of murder and was lucky to receive a life sentence rather than a date with the hangman, although that would itself come much later. Public opinion of the case was made clear when Daniel Stott's grave suddenly acquired a new and anonymously paid-for tombstone bearing the words:
'Daniel Stott, died aged 61 years, poisoned by his wife and Doctor Cream.'
Cream spent the next ten years in the feared Joliet Prison and was released in July 1891 when his sentence was commuted by State Governor Joseph Fifer. Cream's brother had made a number of pleas for leniency (and has also been accused of paying a number of bribes to senior State officials) to secure Dr. Cream's release (amazingly, Cream had still not been struck off the doctor's register in spite of his immensely dubious record and reputation) and Cream sailed back to England, arriving at the port of Liverpool in early October 1891. Cream's father had died in 1887 while Cream was still serving his sentence in Joliet and Cream inherited some $10,000 which he used to move from Liverpool to Lambeth (a poor and rather squalid borough of London) almost as soon as his ship had docked. It was now that his murderous urges would drive him to the first murder for which he was apprehended.
Cream made the acquaintance of a young East London prostitute named Ellen Donworth, only 19 years old and known to her clients (and presumably the police) as 'Nellie' on October 13, 1891. Finding Cream's superficial charm attractive and being impressed by his being a doctor, she had no problems in drinking a "tonic" offered her by Cream on the pretext of improving her general health. In fact, it soon killed her as the tonic was heavily spiked with strychnine. Donworth fell ill that night and was dead the next day. Cream, always on the lookout for any opportunity for easy money, wrote to the coroner in charge the inquest and offered to name the murderer in exchange for a reward of 300,000 pounds, a truly impossible sum for the early 1890's. Cream also tried yet another attempt at blackmail (using another assumed name) by writing to the head of the W.H. Smith chain of bookstores, Mr. W.F.D Smith, accusing him of poisoning Ellen Donworth and demanding money for his silence. The "Lambeth Poisoner" had now begun his final killing spree and this was only the beginning.
A week after Ellen Donworth died, Cream met another prostitute, a 27 year old named Matilda Clover who was also an alcoholic. Matilda Clover promptly became seriously ill and died the day after meeting Cream and her death was initially put down to her chronic alcohol problem. It wasn't until later that her organs were examined and strychnine was found, nor was it known at the time that she had met Cream.
Cream seems to have had a dry spell until April 1892. Maybe his sadistic urges had been temporarily satiated, or maybe he felt he had to control them as too many unexplained and suspicious deaths would arouse too much unwelcome attention, even deaths among London's prostitutes who are seldom top of police priorities even today. It was in April of 1892, after a vacation in Canada, that Cream returned to London and met another young prostitute, Louisa Harvey. Harvey wasn't nearly as impressed by Cream as the unfortunate Ellen Donworth had been, nor did she have the slightest intention of taking the pills offered her by Cream under the guise of their being narcotics. Louisa Harvey simply pretended to swallow the pills he gave her and then threw them into the River Thames once she and Cream had parted company. Why she was so suspicious will never be known. Perhaps she had heard whispers on the prostitute grapevine about Cream, or maybe she just found him too creepy to be around and trust. Either way, it was her mistrust of Cream that was to deny him his latest victim and save her own life.
Sadly, Cream, like all serial killers, was not going to be put off for long. Later that same month he met not one, but two young prostitutes. Alice Marsh was only 21 years old, while her housemate Emma Shrivell, was only 18 when Cream talked his way into their home and, just before he left, gave them both a bottle of Guinness each. Both women would die in agony that same night. Thankfully these two unfortunates would be the deadly doctor's final victims, as Cream had been seen leaving the house by a Police Constable Cumley, who was on night duty at the time..
Cream was finally caught through his own greed. He had his long-standing habit of killing people and then trying to blackmail entirely innocent people by threatening to blame his own murders on them unless they bought his silence, and on his return to London he became especially ambitious in his blackmail attempts. For example, after poisoning Ellen Donworth, Cream sent a demand for hush money to Frederick Smith, whose father had been First Lord of the Admiralty, one of the most senior posts in the Royal Navy. Frederick Smith had also recently been elected to the Parliamentary seat previously held by his father when he received a letter accusing him of murdering Donworth. Interestingly, the letter included a demand for an "attorney" to be retained in order to prevent the release of the "evidence" the letter writer (yet another of Cream's many false names) claimed to have against Frederick Smith. "Attorney" is a name for a lawyer commonly used in North America (where Cream spent much of his life) but is seldom used in the UK where words such as "lawyer," "barrister" and "counsel" are the most commonly-used words for the legal profession. Smith promptly sent the letter to the detectives at Scotland Yard.
Next in the blackmail train was an even more senior figure in London society, Countess Russell. She was in the midst of an especially bitter and lurid series of lawsuits against her then-husband, Lord Russell (they would eventually divorce in 1900). She received a letter claiming that her estranged husband was the murderer of Ellen Donworth and that evidence proving this allegation was available for a price. Countess Russell showed the letter to her lawyer, Sir George Lewis, but later claimed to have lost it. Whether she lost the letter or destroyed it, nothing came of the letter, no money was paid and Lord Russell's name was never brought up in relation to the Lambeth poisonings.
Another letter was sent to a noted doctor named William Broadbent (later Sir William Broadbent), accusing him of murdering Matilda Clover by poisoning. It was this that raised the first suspicions that Cream was what the London papers were by now calling the "Lambeth Poisoner." What caught the attention of detectives was that, despite the death of Matilda Clover having been ruled as natural causes, Dr Broadbent was being accused of her murder by poison. It took very little time before Scotland Yard realized that, whoever the letter writer might be was probably also the "Lambeth Poisoner" as well on the grounds that the letter writer knew far more about the Lambeth poisonings than any innocent person was ever likely to.
There were other factors that also pointed very conclusively to Cream's guilt and only served to increase police suspicions of him. For example, Cream met a detective from New York, who happened to be visiting London and who had heard of the "Lambeth Poisoner." Cream, seemingly thinking he was too clever to be caught and thus above any suspicion at all, obligingly gave this detective a brief tour of where all the "Lambeth Poisoner's" victims had lived and died. The detective mentioned the guided tour to one of his British hosts who found Cream's in-depth knowledge of the case both highly surprising and equally suspicious. Soon, Scotland Yard had Cream under surveillance. They noted his fondness for employing prostitutes and also contacted their American colleagues asking whether Cream had a criminal record in the United States. Once they were informed of Cream's 10 years in Joliet and much of his other unsavory history, they were swift to move in and Cream was finally arrested in July 1892 and charged with the murder of Matilda Clover.
Cream's trial was a media frenzy. Journalists have always loved a good story, newspaper owners have always loved a story that boosted circulation figures. The trial of the "Lambeth Poisoner" was both. The court was packed with reporters and members of the public as Cream spent four days in October of 1892 on trial for his life. It was a futile fight, given the evidence against him. On October 21, and after deliberating for only 10 minutes, the jury brought in a guilty verdict, the judge donned the traditional Black Cap and then passed the sentence then standard for murder in a British court:
"Thomas Neill Cream, it is the sentence of this Court that you be taken from this place to a lawful prison and thence to a place of execution where you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and that you body shall be cut down and buried within the precincts of the prison in which you were last confined before execution. And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul. Remove the prisoner."
Things always moved far quicker in the UK for condemned inmates than they do in the USA nowadays. Before the last executions in the UK in August of 1964, prisoners were only entitled to a period of three Sundays between sentencing and execution unless an appeal to either the Home Secretary or the ruling monarch was successful. In Cream's case, no clemency was forthcoming. On November 15, 1892, Thomas Neill Cream was woken at dawn in the condemned cells of Newgate Prison and led to the gallows by the chief public executioner, James Billington. Once Cream stood on the trapdoors, hooded, strapped and noosed, he is claimed to have uttered the final statement of 'I am Jack the…' as the trapdoors fell and he was immediately dead. Only Billington claimed to hear Cream's final claim to have been history's most infamous serial killer and it will never be known whether or not Cream was also Jack.
Cream's motives for his series of crimes remain unclear. He's been described as always being greedy for money (his repeated attempts at blackmail would tend to support this idea), that he was a rampant misogynist who killed women largely because he hated them, that he was simply a sadist who enjoyed inflicting pain and the feeling of power and omnipotence that serial killers often feel when taking a life. Personally, I believe that all of these factors have their role to play in Cream's deeply disturbed and equally deadly mindset. He was certainly no friend of women in general and seems to have held them in contempt for much of his life, seldom making references to women that weren't at best disparaging and at worst outright disturbing. And I wouldn't doubt for a second that he secretly derived great pleasure from sneaking away from his later victims, enjoying the knowledge of what his pills and potions were going to do to these poor people. But the dominant motive in Cream's case is, I would argue, sadism.
Britain was a poisoner's paradise at the time Cream was plying his trade. Anybody over a certain age could buy pretty much any drug or poison he or she wanted to from any pharmacist. As long as the pharmacist had the required substance in stock, and was satisfied that the buyer wanted it for the purpose they claimed to want it for, then all that had to be done was for the buyer and seller to complete an entry in the Poisons Register required in all pharmacies after the introduction of the Arsenic Act in 1851.
The Arsenic Act, itself brought in to stem a seeming epidemic of arsenic poisoning cases and later extended to a wide variety of toxic substances, simply needed the pharmacist to record the buyer's name, address, their purpose for buying a toxic substance, the amount purchased and the date the poison was sold. There was no requirement for a buyer to provide proof of identification and, as illiteracy was so prevalent among the mass of British people at that time, anyone who was unable to sign their own name (which was a great many people) only had to mark the Poisons Register with an X in order to satisfy the letter of the law. Coupled with the fact that even an ordinary pharmacy could sell poisons like arsenic, strychnine, cyanide, antimony and a wide range of lethal poisons over the counter, the well-intentioned (but ultimately futile) Arsenic Act was more like a poisoner's charter than a meaningful means of stopping would-be murderers from buying the poison of their choice with virtually no questions asked.
Cream could thus buy large amounts of a great many poisons, including strychnine, and as a qualified doctor he could not have been unaware of the terrible effect that strychnine poisoning has upon a human victim. An amateur, without medical training, might choose strychnine simply because he or she knew it was a deadly poison, but Cream was a doctor and thus would have had a thorough working knowledge of the effects and symptoms of the common poisons of the day. His clear desire to inflict maximum suffering aside, the symptoms of strychnine poisoning are very similar to the symptoms of tetanus, a common disease in the UK at that time and one which can prove lethal if not correctly treated.
Again, Cream's medical training would have ensured he knew this and, like the equally infamous "Rugeley Poisoner" and fellow doctor, William Palmer, also hanged for multiple poisoning murders, Cream could well have been hoping that the forensic detection methods available at the time (the standard of toxicology then beggars belief when compared with the standards and practices used today) might have provided a convenient smokescreen to cover the use of strychnine.
The symptoms of strychnine poisoning on a human being are, frankly, appalling. Approximately 10 to 20 minutes after taking the poison, the victim's head and neck muscles start to spasm. The face spasms as well, giving rise to what doctors call "Risus Sardonicus," the familiar grimace so common with strychnine poisoning and also tetanus and epileptic fits. Convulsions spread throughout the victim's body and instantly become worse with even the slightest stimulus such as light or increase in room temperature.
The convulsions build until the victim is continuously racked with the entire body spasming to the point where only the victim's head and heels will actually touch the floor. Other effects are lactic acidosis (a painful building of acid within the muscles), hyperthermia (a massive and swift increase in the victim's temperature) and rhabdomyolysis (a breaking down of muscle fibres that leaches myoglobin into the bloodstream often resulting in kidney damage). Death is usually caused by either paralysis of the lungs resulting in suffocation or by extreme muscular exhaustion from the convulsions and usually occurs two to three hours after the victim has taken the initial dose. Throughout those hours the victim is usually at least partially conscious and always in the most excruciating pain. As such, strychnine is ertainly the perfect weapon of choice for anyone seeking not only to kill their victims, but also to inflict the maximum level of physical and mental anguish.
Cream is unusual in the pantheon of serial killers in that he possesses some of the traits of the classic serial killer, but he makes the relatively unusual choice of poison as a means for murder. There have been a number of serial poisoners both before and since Cream, but poison remains a relatively rare choice for anyone choosing to kill repeatedly for pleasure and/or profit.
In his later crimes, Cream seldom properly knew his victims, he had a preferred type of victim (prostitutes are often a favorite among serial killers even today), he possessed a number of psychopathic qualities such as superficial charm and warmth that readily concealed his darker side (especially to the more naïve and gullible of his victims) and, I'd argue was a particularly sadistic character owing to his use of strychnine in preference to the myriad of other poisons that are equally lethal, but nowhere near as painful, that he could have obtained just as easily.
As for Cream's claim to being Jack the Ripper, I don't think there's much doubt that Cream was not. For starters, Cream was in Joliet Prison at the time of the Whitechapel murders if his prison records are to be believed, while we only have the word of the hangman James Billington that he even claimed to be Jack the Ripper. Given that a prison gallows is rarely more spacious than it needs to be and that the number of witnesses stood on and around the gallows was far larger than in later British hangings (reporters were still allowed to witness hangings in those days, and it wasn't at all unusual for various legal officials, the prison chaplain, the prison doctor, the assistant hangman and a couple of prison guards to be standing round the trapdoors as the prisoner was hanged) it does seem unlikely, at best, that James Billington could have heard Cream claim to be Jack when not a single other witness did anything but deny hearing him when asked later by reporters.
Billington wasn't always quite as discreet as they could have been, and at the time of the Cream hanging in 1892 he was still allowed to talk openly about his work. It wasn't until the early 20th century that reporters were banned from witnessing executions and even then the policy was left at the discretion of prison Governors and not simply enforced across the board by the Home Office or the Prison Commissioners . Furthermore, it wasn't for another 20 years that British executioners were banned completely from giving interviews to reporters, Albert Pierrepoint being something of an exception to the rule. So I'd argue that there's a strong likelihood that James Billington may have been a little creative when discussing the execution with reporters, probably in the hope of providing a more saleable story.

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A friend of mine brought this lovely salad to a picnic and I couldn't stop eating it. She told me she got the recipe from one of Barefoot Contessa's cookbook. I immediately found it on the food network and printed it out. I made it for my family reunion this summer. It is a great summer salad but you could make it any time of year. What makes it wonderful besides all the amazing flavors is that you can serve it immediately and can also sit room temperature for quite some time.
I altered this recipe slightly because I don't like egg plant and feel the pine nuts were not necessary. If you want to follow the exact recipe click link above.
1 red bell pepper (1 inch diced)
1 yellow pepper (1 inch diced)
1 red onion (1 inch diced)
2 garlic cloves minced
1/3 cup of olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 pound orzo pasta
4 scallions minced white and green parts
3/4 pound feta (1 inch diced not crumbled)
15 fresh basil leaves cut into julienne
For the Dressing
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
1/3 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Pre heat oven to 425 degrees.
Toss red, yellow pepper, red onion, garlic, olive oil on a large sheet pan with salt and pepper. Roast for about 40 minutes or until browned turning once with spatula.
While roasting cook pasta in boiling water for 7 to 9 minutes until tender. Drain and add to large serving bowl. Add roasted vegetables, scraping all the drippings from pan to bowl.
For the dressing combine lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. Let cool room temperature. Add feta, scallions and basil leaves. Check the seasoning and serve room temperature.
Enjoy and let me know what you think. I feel this is a great recipe to bring as to potluck


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Ubuntu OS to Run on Smartphones
The company behind the Linux-based OS Ubuntu announced on Wednesday that it will be offering a version of its software that will run on smartphones. Namely, the Ubuntu operating system uses the same drivers as Android and would work as a replacement software for existing phones running the Android OS, according to Canonical.
Canonical will release the open-source code as a file that can be installed on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, initially. Plans are also in the works with manufacturers to provide the software pre-installed on a device sometime before the end of the year.
Aside just from the fact that Ubuntu is a powerful, popular, free and open-source OS that will now be available on a smartphone, this news could mark a milestone in tech history as an operating system significantly blurs the line between a …


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We sat down with Source Code star Jake Gyllenhaal, and quizzed him about the science behind the movie. Does he believe that memories could be stored on computers? What's based on actual science in this film? Watch our interview.
Do you think that one day we will be able to access memories on a hard drive?
Gyllenhaal: When I read the script, that's why I loved the movie. It was because essentially the center of the movie is about this computer program that allows you to enter someone's body for the last 8 minutes of their life. I think maybe it's a long time coming, but with so many other possibilities, I wouldn't necessarily rule it out, the ability to access memory. Or not even memory really but experience.
Did you study the science behind the film?
Gyllenhaal: Particularly my job is more about, what would be the emotional effects of something like this? What would it be like if I found myself there. If I had a background in the army and in flying helicopters. If I was put in this situation, how would I respond? To me it was the human behavior aspect of it that I was fascinated with.
Duncan sent me lots of different videos. And one of them was pilots in pilot training school, when they do G-force training. And their responses to the first time they go into G-force, because they have a simulator that they go into. It's actually relatively funny, because a lot of them lose consciousness, and then come to and don't know what happened. That's what I was into. This is a similar experience. When he wakes up at first (and I don't know if this is in the final version of the movie) but we did say, the first time, "Did I A-lock?" which is a common response when you lose consciousness when you go into G-force. He comes to and he's like "whoa am I just tripping out am I hallucinating did my helicopter go down?" Nope, you're on a train sitting next to a woman saying she knows you and you have no idea who she is. And you're in somebody else's body.
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Walker says he texts advice to Ryan
Ryan, Walker at forefront of conservative movement in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he regularly exchanges text messages with U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, including passing along scripture verses and campaign advice.
Walker said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press that he's been reminding Ryan, now that he's Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, to get enough sleep, eat well and pay attention to his family.
Walker said Ryan gave him the same advice during his recall campaign.
Walker and Ryan, who lives in his native Janesville, are just two years apart in age and have been at the forefront of the conservative movement in Wisconsin.
Walker said he texted Ryan on Monday affirming how he handled hecklers at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Walker said Ryan handled it perfectly by urging respect, then getting back on message.


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Now that the age of commercial spaceflight has begun, is the sky the limit?
Is NASA, which hasn't gotten a manned spaceship off the ground since last year's Columbia tragedy, starting to look like a dinosaur among the furry mammals?
Do the wildly successful missions to Mars and Saturn show that robots are the ones that really have the "right stuff" when it comes to planetary exploration?
The past year's space achievements raised many questions — but fortunately, brought many answers as well:
- We now know it's possible for private companies to send people into outer space and bring them safely back again.
- We now know that areas of Mars were once covered with water , and could have provided places for life to develop.
- We now know the White House and congressional leaders are willing to put their money where their mouths are, in order to push into the space frontier once again.
When you put it all together, there's more to look back on this year than there has been since 1997, when Mars Pathfinder was the star of MSNBC.com's first "Year in Space" roundup. (To refresh your memory, you can look back on 2002 and 2003 .)
We've put together five top space stories for 2004, and five trends to watch in 2005. It's up to you to pick the top contenders, using the admittedly unscientific Live Vote at right. If you have a write-in vote — or even if you just have something you need to get off your chest about the state of space exploration — you can send e-mail to the Cosmic Log in-box. We'll publish a selection of your responses after the first of the year.
2004's top stories
NASA's problems and Rutan's success might lead some to see a public-private space rivalry brewing, and Rutan has certainly leveled sharp criticism at the agency he calls "Nay-Say." But the rise of a suborbital space industry, backed by legislation, could well lead to a symbiotic relationship with the farther-out exploration effort — where private markets and the public interest foster the next generation of space entrepreneurs and explorers.
• And also: Stardust snaps a comet close-up in January ... Total lunar eclipses in May and October ... Venus makes rare transit in June ... Genesis probe goes splat in September ... Hypersonic flight goes right in November ... Missile defense system fails test in December ... Asteroid sparks brief "yellow alert" in December .
2005's top trends:
• Touchdown at Titan: The Huygens probe is due to parachute through Titan's atmosphere on Jan. 14. Will it splash down in hydrocarbon seas? Hit an icy continent? Fall to an unknown fate? The descent has its own drama, and if Huygens' final flight works out as astronomers hope, the mission will shed new light on an environment many scientists believe is much like early Earth once was. As a bonus, 2005 brings a whole year of science from Saturn, courtesy of Cassini.
• Return to flight ... or not? NASA is working toward its first post-Columbia shuttle launch in May or June. But how safe is safe enough? Will Discovery lift off even if mission planners aren't certain it could survive Columbia-level damage? Some say the shuttles should never fly again, while others say living with the risk is what space exploration is all about.
• Martian-go-round: How long can those plucky rovers survive on Mars? Could they still be on the job when NASA launches its next Mars mission in August? And let's not forget Europe's Mars Express orbiter, which detected traces of methane in the Martian atmosphere that may well hint at microbial life.
• China's second leap: The Shenzhou 6 mission, with two Chinese astronauts aboard, is scheduled for liftoff in September , following up on China's first manned space mission in 2003. Will the mission bring some surprises? Will it help fuel a new rivalry in human spaceflight, or will China turn out to be a new partner in space exploration?
• Flights of the Falcon: After months of delay , the upstart Falcon 1 rocket is due to make its maiden flight by mid-2005 with a military satellite as its payload. An even more significant launch of the beefed-up Falcon 5 could come late in the year, bearing an inflatable test module into space. Will this represent the next chapter in the private-sector space saga that began with SpaceShipOne?
• And also: Da Vinci's Wildfire rocket launches (or not?) in January ... Cosmos 1 solar-sail mission set for April ... Deep Impact takes aim at a comet in July ... Will there be an orbital space passenger in October ?
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Soccer is a funny game. If you had told the Columbus Crew that they would have earned a point after flying across the country to play a road game against one of the top teams in Major League Soccer, they would have taken it. If you had shown the Columbus Crew highlights of the first 30 minutes and final 20 minutes of Saturday's match in San Jose and told them that they'd earn a point, they would have taken it. Yet after Saturday's 1-1 draw with the Earthquakes, the locker room was more funereal than fun. That's because the Crew were moments away from an improbable victory before allowing a 90th minute equalizer that not only erased two points in the standings, but also spoiled a slick, winner-worthy goal from Justin Meram and a career-best game from Andy Gruenebaum.
"Maybe once we're a little bit removed from the moment, we will be able to better appreciate getting the point," said Cole Grossman, "but any time you give up a late goal to tie the game, it's going to feel like a loss, whether your goalie makes 20 saves or no saves. I don't think anybody's appreciative of a point right now, but maybe once we settle down, we might think that a point is a decent result. Still, we had three points in our grasp, so it is unbelievably frustrating."
The Quakes jumped on the Crew early and often. In the 3rd minute, Gruenebaum stopped a long range knuckler from Khari Stephenson. In the 7th minute, he caught a Simon Dawkins blast hit right at him. San Jose held possession in the Crew end and constantly threatened the goal.
"We always talk about coming out and biting first to set the tone early," said defender Josh Williams, "but they came out with a fire that I haven't seen since I've been playing. They came out flying."
The Crew were bending but not breaking, but a penalty call seemed like it would finally open the floodgates.
In the 21st minute, former Crew forward / hyper-physical super-pest Steven Lenhart attempted to dribble around Gehrig in the box. The two bumped into each other and both went down. After what seemed like an eternity, the referee blew his whistle and jogged, rather than pointed, to the penalty spot. The Crew vociferously argued the call, saying it should have been a foul on Lenhart. Gruenebaum would save Chris Wondolowski's ensuing penalty kick.
"I just touched it around him and then we got tangled up," Lenhart said. "It was just a dogpile, I guess. I haven't looked at the replay. I wanted to shoot, so I wasn't going down easy, but I guess the ball never lies. We didn't score."
"You know how Steve is," Gehrig said, referencing Lenhart's time in Columbus. "He's turning on me and he has his hands all over me and is throwing me to the ground. Yeah, I was behind him, but I don't see how it was a PK. But like he said, the ball doesn't lie, I guess. I don't think it was a PK, but Andy made the save, so that's that."
In a night filled with big saves, Gruenebaum's PK stoning of the league's leading scorer, Chris Wondolowski, was among the most improbable. However, it was the result of solid homework.
"We watched a lot of video on their goals, and I happened to notice that Wondo is a pretty good player," Gruenebaum deadpanned. "He goes that way at least once and he hits it hard, so I just dove and just made myself big. When I noticed it was starting to go back to my right, and that I over-dove it, I just stacked my pads. I was watching Brodeur today."
Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils is Gruenebaum's goalie hero, despite playing a different sport.
Sometimes a penalty save will pick up a struggling team. Instead, Gruenebaum's save seemed to kick the Quakes up another notch. In the 23rd minute, the Hebrew Hammer went low to his right to stop a Lenhart header that was destined for the corner of the net. In the 26th minute, he made a superb kick save to deny Dawkins from in close. In the 28th minute, he saved another Dawkins effort.
After about the 30th minute, the Crew started taking control of the game, giving their defense a much-needed breather.
"Josh and I were talking in the back that we just needed to weather the storm," Gehrig said. "Every match has those kind of moments. Andy obviously did most of the work, but Josh and I did our best. Dawkins is flying, Khari Stephenson is blasting, and then you have Lenhart and Wondo, but once we settled down and started keeping the ball, good things happened."
"The adjustment was that we squeezed the field a little bit more," said Crew coach Robert Warzycha. "The defenders squeezed the field from both sides, and then the midfielders were moving quicker from side to side. We were winning the ball higher on the field, which then made it easier to possess the ball."
"We started winning some second balls and we started holding on to the ball more," said midfielder Eddie Gaven. "Early, they were quicker than us and sharper than us, and when we did win it, we were just lumping it forward. But as the game went on, we were able to play a little bit and create some chances. It was good, but we definitely don't want to come out every game and get killed for the first 30 minutes. We need to make it better against Seattle."
The Crew delivered a cruel counterpunch in the second minute of first half stoppage time, when Justin Meram curled in a beautiful goal to send the Crew into the locker room with an improbable 1-0 lead. As Meram dribble on the left side of the box, San Jose defender Steven Beitashour gave Meram a little too much room to maneuver. For a crafty player like Meram, who isn't afraid to try something audacious, that little bit of space was all he needed to bend a looping shot inside the far corner of the net. Quakes goalkeeper Jon Busch was helpless on the play.
"I picked my head up, and he (Beitashour) was backing off and jockeying me, waiting for me to make a move," Meram said. "My instinct was, 'All right, if he's going to give me that space, I'm going to hit it.' I just saw the far post open. It's one of those where he (Busch) is reading me to cross, so he didn't even move. He didn't see it coming. That was that."
"He hit a great shot," Gaven said of Meram's strike. "That was huge. To be able to come in at the half, up 1-0, in a road game where we know we didn't play our best, that was huge."
Meram's goal half-fulfilled an Eric Gehrig prophecy.
"First thing this morning," Gehrig said, "I texted him and said 'You're going to score two.' I had a dream that he was going to score two. He didn't score two, but he scored one hell of a goal. It was unbelievable. It was ridiculous."
"Man, that's Premiership stuff right there," said Williams. "If that's not goal of the week, then I don't know what is. That's two weeks and two bangers. This one was top-class. It was great."
Meram scored a 35-yard worm-burner a week earlier against Dallas. These two incredible goals in back to back weeks were the first two of his career.
"In college, I scored a lot of goals," Meram said. "As a rookie last year, I didn't get my chance. Finally when I got the monkey off my back (last week), now I go out and play. I feel comfortable. I got that natural instinct back, which is good. As a goal-scorer, there's always those droughts and moments where you're either hot or you're not. I'm going to keep riding this as long as I can. I've got a little confidence right now. Two games, two goals—that's always good."
In the final 20 minutes, San Jose ratcheted up the pressure in search of the equalizer. In the 73rd minute, Gruenebaum made a fantastic 1v1 save on Alan Gordon, who was narrowly offside anyway. (Not that it lessened the impact of the save since the whistle didn't blow until after Gruenebaum saved it.)
There was a scary moment in the 79th minute when Williams slipped, and then Gehrig slid to break up the pass on a 3-on-1. Had his heroic attempt to break up the play failed, the Quakes would have had multiple players bearing down on Gruenebaum.
"Andy probably would have saved it, the way he was playing," Gehrig said. "At those points in the game, you knew they were going to come at us because they were down a goal. Me, Josh, Seba, and everyone, were just trying to make plays. Andy too. You lay your body out, killing yourself, trying to keep the shutout. That's what I was trying to do, and that's what everyone else did."
Gruenebaum would make on last phenomenal diving save on a 84th minute close-range header from Gordon.
The clock ticked toward victory, but Gordon wasn't finished yet.
In the 90th minute, Gordon won a flick header to Wondolowski. Gehrig stood up Wondo, who laid the ball back to Gordon. From there, Gordon one-timed a shot off of the crossbar. Unfortunately for the Crew, Gordon followed his own rebound and unleashed a flying side-volley that squeezed between Shaun Francis and the right post to tie the game.
"It hits the crossbar and I'm like, 'Hey, all right! Another one!'," Gehrig said. "But then somehow it squeaks it in. It was great play by Alan. Credit to him."
"I didn't do well putting it away on the initial shot," Gordon said, "but luckily I got to the rebound and was able to finish. Once I saw I had a chance to follow up my shot, I knew I had to have it."
He did have it. And just like that, the Crew had a tie instead of a win.
"The way Andy was playing, and the way I am always confident in our team, I thought we were coming out with three," Williams said. "We were picking each other up and I never once doubted us. We knew they were going to throw the kitchen sink at us, but at the end of the day, maybe our legs died or something. They got a good goal, but it was unfortunate. It was a tough pill to swallow."
Having been moments away from stealing a win the way Vancouver stole a win in Columbus, the road point left the Crew more mournful than mirthful in the locker room.
"It's one of the more disheartening feelings, to give up on in the 90th minute," Gruenebaum said. "Especially when you feel like after surviving all that, you're going to steal one. A result on the road against San Jose is good, but after playing that game, it's devastating to lose the lead."
"Losing late like that always hurts that much more," said Gaven. (His choice of "losing" instead of "tying" says a lot about the emotion of the late equalizer, doesn't it?) "Andy played incredible tonight. Justin scores a great goal, we're up 1-0, and we're playing well at that point. To come out with one point, it's better than losing for sure, but we felt like this was one that we definitely should have won. "
Meram felt the worst for Gruenebaum and the defensive unit, who had battled so hard in the face of San Jose's relentless attack.
"I wish we could have gotten the win out here," Meram said. "Everyone played extremely hard today. Andy Gruenebaum was the best goalie I have ever played with, with the saves he made today. He was incredible. Our whole back line fought hard against Wondo, Lenhart and Gordon over the course of 90 minutes. It's going to be a battle, and we fought, but we unfortunately gave up that goal in the 90th."
Josh Williams: "That was a performance out of a goalkeeper that I haven't seen maybe in my whole life."
San Jose coach Frank Yallop: "The first 30-35 minutes, we were excellent and could have been three-nil up. Their 'keeper was excellent and kept them in it."
Warzycha: "He was very good. What can I say?"
Wait, that's it? Just "very good?"
"He did what he is supposed to do," the coach said with a smile.
It was later apparent that Warzycha was playfully understating Gruenebaum's performance when I spoke to him. With other reporters, he used words like "unbelievable" and "phenomenal" to describe Gruenebaum's heroics.
The Crew made what appeared to be a surprising halftime substitution, yanking prized offseason acquisition Milovan Mirosevic in favor of second-year man Cole Grossman. Afterward, Warzycha explained the rationale for the move.
"Injury," Warzycha said. "You don't take a player off at halftime, especially as good a player as Milo is. It was a groin injury, which is why Cole came in at halftime. I think Cole did well."
Grossman had no idea about Mirosevic's injury when he was told to enter the game.
"I was just told to stay loose at halftime," he said. "Then they told me I was going to start the second half. I wasn't expecting that, to be honest, but it was fun."
As if the speed of Dawkins and the craftiness of Wondolowski weren't enough to deal with, Williams and Gehrig found themselves in a physical battle all night long with Lenhart and Gordon.
"That brought me back to my rookie year, battling every day and taking elbows every day in the face," Williams said of playing against Lenhart. "But it was good. I like that stuff. We were talking in the game and joking around. It was good. I like the physical play and battling around. He's a good guy and he plays tough, man. It's part of the game, the elbows and the little nicks here and there. At the end of the day, I think we did a decent job on him in the second half. In the first half, he got loose a couple of times. It's all a learning experience. Me and Gehrig are still bonding, and that was a tough one."
Lenhart, as always, enjoyed mixing it up.
"There's never hard feelings," he said. "We just smile and tug each other a little bit. I love someone who plays hard, so I appreciated that."
Gehrig, meanwhile, bore the brunt of the rough stuff. He got wiped out on bad yellow-card challenges from Lenhart and Gordon, and he also sported a black eye from a Gordon elbow.
"With guys like Gordon and Lenhart, you have to match their physicality," Gehrig said. "Otherwise, you are going to get eaten alive. I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but if we get the shutout and I get elbowed in the face and kicked in the leg, then it would have been worth it. But I guess, at the end of the day, we just have to swallow it and take our point."
Lenhart spent some time pregame exchanging hugs and pleasantries with his former teammates. He and Gruenebaum had a quick conversation while hugging it out. Afterward, they posed for this photo, in which Steve kept his game face on despite Gbaum's attempts to butter him up:
So, what exactly did they talk about?
"I told him a win bonus would go a long way toward keeping my marriage intact," Gruenebaum said. "I use that because it pulls on the heartstrings of good guys. Steve's a good guy, so I told him I didn't need any goals. At least HE didn't get one."
"I tried to," Lenhart said afterward, "but he's a good goalie. He's such a beast."
I can't imagine that the coin toss is more meaningful in any other MLS venue as it is at Buck Shaw Stadium. During warm-ups, I got firsthand knowledge on just how crazy the sun can be at Quakes games. If your team is defending the east goal, you will be blinded in the early stages of the match. Here are some photos taken during warm-ups. It's hard to capture the true scope of the sun-blindness with a cell phone camera, but I tried.
Here's a shot of Crew goalkeeper Matt Lampson warming up:
Here's Steve Lenhart conversing during warm-ups. I was hoping the sun would stream through the fro to create crepuscular rays like on a cloudy day:
And here are two more general shots during warm-ups:
Thankfully, Crew captain Danny O'Rourke won the all-important coin toss.
(The little Earthquakes structure for the coin toss prompted my friend Rob to say, "It's like they're going to have prom here later.")
As a result of O'Rourke's coin toss win, it was Quakes goalie Jon Busch who had to don the baseball cap and stare into the sun for the first 15 minutes of the match. It would seem that the Crew squandered the advantage since they did not put a single shot on goal during this stretch, but when one considers all that Gruenebaum had to do early in the game, that coin toss win was much more important at the defensive end of the field.
By halftime, the sunset made for picture-perfect tree silhouettes at the west end of the stadium:
One of the peculiarities of Buck Shaw Stadium is that the teams use cramped locker rooms in the nearby basketball arena. They must make a lengthy trek to and from the soccer stadium. The good news is, after making that journey, you're already warmed up and ready to play the second half.
Here is a photo of some of that journey. The basketball locker rooms are out of frame to the right. The benches inside the soccer stadium are well out of frame to the left. The tiny yellow things near the middle of the picture are Crew players.
As of Saturday night, LeBron James was in the midst of another series of late-game funks and his heavily favored Miami Heat trailed their playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, two games to one. Upon scoring his goal, Meram celebrated by mimicking LeBron's pregame chalk toss.
"The LeBron celebration was just to give him a little luck in his next game," Meram explained. "I think he's a great player and I wanted to show him a little love."
On Sunday, LeBron put up 40 points, 18 rebounds, and 9 assists as the Heat tied the series. On Tuesday, he totaled 30 points, 10 rebounds, and 8 assists as the Heat took a 3-2 series lead.
I'm not happy about how Meram is using his powers in this instance, but if he does indeed have the ability to reverse years of predictable failure, it's a good omen for the Crew's Wednesday match in Seattle. Spanning all competitions, the Crew are winless against the Sounders in seven matches.
I didn't know this, but San Jose's mascot is a muppet.
Questions? Comments? If the universe folded in on itself due to excessive awesomeness, think Gruenebaum could have saved Meram's curler? Feel free to write at email@example.com or via twitter @stevesirk
Sirk's Notebook: San Jose Roadtrip
Soccer is a funny game. If you had told the Columbus Crew that they would have earned a point after flying across the country to play a road game against one of the top teams in Major League Soccer, they would have taken it. If you had shown the Columbus Crew highlights of the first 30 minutes and final 20 minutes of Saturday's match in San Jose and told them that they'd earn a point, they would have taken it. Yet after Saturday's 1-1 draw with the Earthquakes, the locker room was more funereal than fun. That's because the Crew were moments away from an improbable victory before allowing a 90th minute equalizer that not only erased two points in the standings, but also spoiled a slick, winner-worthy goal from Justin Meram and a career-best game from Andy Gruenebaum.


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That's a nice idea, but would also be easy to abuse, for example with death protection (which Tikki hates, but the free dodge after DP might be worth it). Also by fighting low damage enemies to trigger the guaranteed dodge, then using that on the boss. But at least it would require healing before it can be done again. This allows for huge abuse with regen though: regen to just past the HP threshold, hit a low damage enemy to take you below the threshold and trigger the dodge, hit the boss (taking no damage), go regen just past the threshold, attack the low damage enemy to trigger dodge, etc. Also I think it's too complicated.
Maybe all dodging could be changed to work like the quicksilver potion, stacking up when you get hit and resetting when you dodge. Values would need to be adjusted of course, but this would provide some degree of reliability and allow interesting tactics without too much potential for abuse (desecrating TT's altar or using a really big sword to give low level enemies first strike and using that to stack dodge is the only abuse I can currently think of). Also there would still be some randomness in the mix, because if you don't use the stacked dodge you might lose it when you don't actually need it, and the more reliable it gets the more likely you are to lose it while stacking it up further.


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After Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) today announced he is prepared to hold John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wouldn't honor the hold.
Paul said he's willing to hold Brennan's nomination until he receives sufficient answers to two letters of inquiry he sent to Brennan regarding the use of drones.
"I have asked Mr. Brennan if he believed that the president has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and my question remains unanswered," Paul said. "I will not allow a vote on this nomination until Mr. Brennan openly responds to the questions and concerns my colleagues and I share."
But Reid's office will not honor the hold. Reid also refused to honor holds on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary.
What is a hold?
A hold is a move any individual senator can make to delay a bill/nomination from coming to the floor. It could be used to get more time to review a bill or nomination but in the current climate is an attempt to gain leverage over some issue or request.
From the Senate's official glossary:
"An informal practice by which a senator informs his or her floor leader that he or she does not wish a particular bill or other measure to reach the floor for consideration. The majority leader need not follow the senator's wishes, but is on notice that the opposing senator may filibuster any motion to proceed to consider the measure."


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Genetic Counseling & Testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene Mutations
What are BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations?
BRCA1 and BRCA2 is short for breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 and breast cancer susceptibility gene 2. The BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are present in all individuals. Everyone has two copies of each of these genes - one from each parent.
Mutations of genes are like spelling errors in the genetic code of a gene. Those who have a gene mutation in either the BRCA1 or BRCA 2 gene are at higher than average risk for developing certain cancers.
The BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are responsible for the repair of certain types of DNA errors that may occur each time a human cell makes a copy of itself. Without a gene mutation, functional BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes help ensure the stability of a cell's genetic material, or DNA, and help prevent uncontrolled cell growth. Mutations of these genes have been linked to an increased genetic risk for multiple forms of cancer, but most notably breast and ovarian cancer.
Having mutations of genes, or an inherited mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 does not mean a person is guaranteed to develop cancer, but the chances are significantly higher than for someone who does not have a gene mutation.
How does a BRCA1 or 2 mutation affect cancer risk?
Women who inherit a harmful mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer of 50-80%, compared to 13% for an average woman without the mutation. Their lifetime risk of developing ovarian cancer is 10-45%, compared to 1-2% for an average woman without the mutation. These women have an increased risk of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer at an earlier than average age and may have multiple, close family members who have been diagnosed with these conditions.
Mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 may also increase the risk for pancreatic cancer and melanoma in both women and men. Men also have a higher chance to develop an earlier onset prostate cancer or male breast cancer if a BRCA2 gene mutation is present.
Who should be tested for these gene mutations?
In a family with a history of breast and/or ovarian cancer, the first step may be to test a family member who has had breast or ovarian cancer. If that person is found to have a harmful BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, then other family members can be tested to see if they also have the mutation.
If there is no family member who has had the disease available for testing, a person can still be tested for the most common BRCA1 & 2 mutations. The first step is to meet with a genetic counselor who will help you explore what having genetic testing can mean for you, the risks and benefits to testing and how results will affect cancer screening and prevention recommendations for you.
Guidelines recommend that a woman be screened if any of the following apply:
- Multiple family members have been diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer, particularly if the diagnoses came before age 50.
- Family members who have had bilateral breast cancer (in both breasts).
- Both breast and ovarian cancer is present in the family.
- There are any cases of male breast cancer in the family.
- In addition to breast cancer, family members on the same side of the family have had prostate cancer (at a young age), colorectal cancers, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, and endometrial cancer.
- Family is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage.
Why would someone want to know they have inherited genetic risk for cancer?
People who learn about inherited risk for cancer can take steps to substantially increase the odds of good health. These include:
- Specialized screening: Those with inherited risk often start special screening at earlier ages than those in the general population. Individuals can also benefit from specialized surveillance options typically not offered to those at average risk.
- Risk reduction strategies: There are multiple ways to dramatically lower cancer risk. These options are discussed on an individual basis depending on the level of risk, and taking personal preferences into account.
- Risk avoidance: Detailed genetic counseling is provided about genetic risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and other cancers, and how certain lifestyle modifications may lower risk.
- Making more informed treatment choices: Sometimes surgical decisions and other treatment choices are influenced by knowledge about inherited genetic risk.
Will my insurance cover the cost?
This varies from one policy to another. The genetic counselor will determine how likely it is that you could have a mutation. Most insurance companies will cover the cost of testing for those with a significant chance of having a mutation.
Should my children be tested?
Learning you have a significantly higher chance to develop cancer one day can be scary for anyone - so it is important to consider the value in learning this information for children, teenagers and young adults.
Extensive research in families with known genetic risk due to BRCA1 and BRCA2 has shown that there is no increased risk for cancer in children. Therefore, there are no recommended interventions or special screening methods implemented during childhood. In addition, by choosing to test a child, a parent takes away that individual's right to decide whether, and when to receive this information. Legally someone can pursue genetic testing for BRCA1/2 mutations at age 18, but it is important to know that even at age 18, screening and follow-up recommendations will not change. This is because the cancer risks associated with BRCA1/2 rarely manifest before the late 20's or 30's. So at age 18, national guidelines show there is still isn't much to do even if a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation is present.
At age 25 however, things start to change for young women. Women who test positive for a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation generally start annual mammography, breast MRIs and breast exams at age 25. Therefore, some find this is an optimal time to consider testing. Young men are sometimes interested in pursuing genetic testing at later ages, since there is no screening that starts for men until later. However, some young men are interested in genetic testing to use in reproductive decision-making.
There is no "one size fits all" prescription for genetic testing. Genetic counseling allows each person to understand how they would be affected, and weigh the pros and cons of being testing based on their individual circumstances. Getting tested for a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation can be overwhelming at any age.
What does having a mutation means for me?
The good news is that there are now proven interventions to both lower cancer risk and optimize chances for early cancer diagnosis for those who are aware they carry this risk. Through the process of genetic testing, usually performed as a blood test, these genes can be examined. And, if a mutation in either BRCA1 or BRCA2 is discovered, women and men can take a proactive approach to preventive care and screening. Those who may already have cancer may receive personalized treatments based on those test results.
Can a positive result put me at risk for discrimination?
The Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) was signed into law in 2008. This federal law makes it illegal to raise a person's insurance rates, drop coverage, or deny access to health insurance based on genetic information.
Who do I tell I have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation?
For people who have tested positive for a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation, the first and foremost thing to do is give yourself time to come to terms with what these test results mean to you. When you feel you are able, it may be important to consider a strategy for sharing this personal information with relatives in order to provide them with potentially lifesaving information. Often relevant people in the family to tell include:
- Adult children
- Siblings
- Parents, aunts, uncle
- Anyone with a parent who has/had a related form of cancer
Discussing the presence of genetic risk for cancer with the family can sometimes raise challenging issues. Some people don't want to upset their relatives, feel it's not the right time to tell a relative or just don't know how to bring it up.
How do I tell a family member I have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation?
Find out how much your relative knows about the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations. Be ready to share some general information about how BRCA1 or BRCA2 can affect someone's risk for developing certain kinds of cancer.
Start by sharing that you have been found to carry this genetic risk and that there are things family members can do to lower their own risk of cancer and improve their odds of early diagnosis.
- Genetic information can be hard to understand so avoid medical terminology.
- Only share your personal opinion about what to do if asked.
- Provide printed information.
- Communicate directly whenever possible, either in person, on the phone, or even electronically. Even a letter is a good way to let others know.
- Don't just give information, listen as well.
You may suggest family members and friends get information for themselves from a qualified expert in cancer genetics. It's important to tailor your communication to the individual. You know best how a relative may react to this news.
Knowing about genetic risk for cancer informs someone about things they can do to improve their chances for good health. Knowing your genetic risk for cancer and family history can help you make informed decisions about screening, prevention and sometimes tailored treatments or therapies.
Sharing information about risk can be lifesaving. When you tell a family member about your increased genetic risk, you are empowering them to learn more about their own health and make their own informed decisions about health care.
Resources for further reading
The Basser Center for BRCA: provides education & support for individuals and families with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
Facing our Risk of Cancer Empowered: FORCE provides support, education and awareness to help those facing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.
Sharsheret: is a national not-for-profit organization supporting Jewish women and families facing breast cancer and ovarian cancer at every stage – before, during, and after diagnosis


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Mark Bolan and T-Rex's Jeepster is a slippery, sexy ode to love. In contrast, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeepster doesn't quite ooze the sex, but even so, you might find its price something to love.
The Acura Integra, especially in GS-R or balls to the wall Type-R form, has a reputation for handling that's wedding night tight. Matching that tightness was the vote for yesterday's 1998 Integra, which, at 49%/51%, put the car firmly into the Nice Crack realm.
If off-road prowess is as important to you as on, then today's 1968 Jeep Jeepster Commando may be right up your canyon. Following WWII, Willys-Overland found a ready market for its CJ, or Civilian Jeep, among both farmers and flannel wearers. Looking to add a little cosmopolitan civility to the hair-chested utility of the CJ, W-O introduced a new series, the VJ (predating MTV by 30 years) Jeepster in late 1948. The Brooks Stevens design sported a longer wheelbase and only two-wheel drive, but was still easily recognizable as a Jeep. Unfortunately it didn't catch on with the car buying public, forcing Jeep to rip van winkle the truck for more than a decade.
In 1966 the Jeepster was revived in C101 form, and to celebrate it gained the moniker Commando, mostly because it never wore underwear. The new Jeepster eschewed the earlier truck's Go Devil L-head four banger for a much more contemporary F-head engine dubbed the Hurricane, as titty twister had already been copyrighted. Also available, and powering today's contender, was the 225 CID Dauntless V6, an engine that was sourced from Buick. You're probably familiar with that engine's odd-firing nature, and GMs eventual re-purchase of the tooling, but that's a story to save for when we have a Grand National to talk about.
Here, the 160-bhp engine throws its weight around through a three-speed manual transmission and sturdy 4-wheel drive system that features manually locking hubs, just like the trail rated Gods intended. The body of the C101 edition lost all of Brooks Stevens' flamboyant curves, and was saddled instead with what appeared to be an elongated CJ body with only a severely canted back end to shake the design up. That's not to say it's unattractive, and in fact, with its hardtop in place, the C101 Jeepster exudes a jaunty charm usually reserved for middle aged men smoking pipes while fly fishing.
The interior gets no love in this Commando's Craigslist ad, but on outside, while the seller doesn't claim it to have the universe reclining in its hair, he does tout new paint, new tires and, most importantly, no rust. He also mentions 40K, but it's confusing whether he means that's all it's got on the clock, or that's what he's done in it using it as a daily driver. Other than that, he's pretty tight lipped. That's okay, because they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we have four to examine in order to determine if this Jeepster is worth the $6,500 that the seller is asking. What do you say, does that price make you think this Jeepster is so sweet and so fine? Or, is that too much for you to say I'll make it mine?
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Does a tight budget have you considering calling off your summer vacation?
Scaling back -- or even canceling -- your annual summer getaway can be sour news for any family to swallow. But if there's anything these hard economic times have taught us, it's that there's a way to get around the high costs of pretty much anything.
Check out these five ways to stretch your summer vacation dollar.
Up first, is there really no place like home?
Go local
Lots of people are taking "staycations" these days, and have been for a couple years now, but you can broaden your horizons by using local deals from sites like Groupon, Travelzoo and Living Social to add more bang to your itinerary without packing on a lot of extra money.
From actual travel deals to bargains on events and activities like river boat rides, winery tours and minor and major league baseball games, these sites offer up something for everyone.
Sound cumbersome to wade through all those emails? Let sites like dealnews.com aggregate the best local deals from around the country, allowing you to pick a location that's not your hometown, and send them to your inbox or ping your phone when something good comes along.
But can construct a great vacation while keeping your budget afloat?
Cruise it up
Taking a great cruise on the cheap is possible, especially if you can find a cruise line that leaves from a port closer to home.
This will be easier said than done in Miami or Los Angeles than in, say, Des Moines, Iowa, but it's valid advice nonetheless. There's no reason to pay a premium to fly to Miami or New York (and pay for any overnight stays in those pricey cities) to hop a ship when cruise lines like Carnival and Norwegian leave from a variety of ports.
Also try Orbitz and other travel sites for cheap package trips and Cruisedeals.com for some last-minute bargains.
With out next tip, discover how you can fill up without emptying your wallet ...
Up your gas mileage
Find ways to get cheap gas and/or improve your car's gas mileage to pay less at the pump. The ideas can be as easy as downloading an app to your smartphone to find the cheapest gas prices in the area to replacing your car's oxygen sensor.
Are you ready for an extra special vacation ...
Get some extras
Really in search of a bargain? Get some extras thrown in with your travel deal.
Nothing makes spending a good chunk of money easier than getting something on the side for free.
Also, be sure to take advantage of free mile offers from airlines and airline credit cards.
With our last tip we find out if good things really come to those who wait ...
The "D" word
It's the bane of every traveler, but delaying your big trip until you can find a great deal is better than canceling it.
If a trip comes up that works for you, you can snag a last-minute deal. Your best bets are to keep tabs on travel deal aggregators like Travelzoo, Kayak, Cheapflights.com and Yahoo's FareChaser and set up alerts to get emails when particular destinations hit a certain price point.
Southwest sends out a Click 'n Save email with deals on airfare, cars, hotels, vacations and even cruises, offering deals from a city of your choice.
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Hartford Stage's upcoming 49th season — and its first chosen by its new artistic director Darko Tresnjak — will begin a new Shakespearean tradition, present an Ibsen classic, feature an overlooked Beth Henley play and premiere two shows: a chamber musical and a new play with music.
Tresnjak will stage three productions and two -- and perhaps three others shows -- will be staged by women.
The 2012-'13 season will begin with Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," directed by Jennifer Tarver, who staged "Krapp's Last Tape" at Long Wharf Theatre last year with Brian Dennehy. The adaptation of the work has not yet been selected. The run will be Aug. 30 to Sept. 23.
Next up and running Oct. 11 to Nov. 4 will be the premiere of the musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," based on the obscure 105-year-old obscure British novel by Roy Horniman, "Israel Rank." The 1949 film "Kind Hearts and Coronets" with Alec Guinness was loosely based on the book. The show, directed by Tresnjak, will have music by Steve Lutvak with a book and lyrics by Robert J. Freedman. Commercial attachment may be involved.
Jefferson Mays, who won a Tony Award for "I Am My Own Wife" and is now in the Broadway production of "The Best Man," stars in the story of a man of little means in Edwardian England who is eighth in line to a dukedom and who hires a hit man to kill off the seven heirs ahead of him for the title. (All the heirs will be played by Mays.)
The musical, which features eight actors and six musicians, was to have been presented at La Jolla Playhouse in California in 2010 but was postponed due to questions over rights issues which have been since settled.
Returning as an off-subscription offering is the 15th edition of "A Christmas Carol: a Ghost Story of Christmas."
Starting in January, 2013 will be the world premiere of Daniel Beaty's "Breath and Imagination: The Story of Roland Hayes," based on the life of the first internationally acclaimed African-American classical vocalist. The show will be a co-production with a theater yet to be be named. the show will run Jan. 10 to Feb. 3.
Born to former slaves, Hayes was a lyric tenor who lived from 1887 to 1977 and received acclaim performing at Carnegie Hall as well as other prestigious venues worldwide. The work centers on the singer;s relationship with his mother.
The play, which features classical and gospel music, was commissioned by Hartford Stage when Beaty, an accomplished classical singer, was Aetna Voices writer-in-residence during the 2007-'08 season. The play was part of the theater's "Brand:NEW" playwriting series in 2008. Beaty may take one of the three roles on the work but that has not yet been determined.
Beaty is also the author "Resurrection" which played the theater in 2008, as well as his acclaimed off-Broadway solo show in which he starred, "Emergency" (formerly titled "Emergence-SEE").
The show in the fourth slot, running Feb. 21 to March 17, is still to be announced.
Next up is Beth Henley's play "Abundance," which had a run off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1990. the show will run April 4 to 28.
The play, about two mail-order brides is a revisionist Western epic and featuring five actors, is directed by Jenn Thompson, who scored recently with acclaimed off-Broadway productions of "Eccentricities of a Nightingale," "The Late Christopher Bean" and "Lost in Yonkers."
Thompson also acted and directed regularly in The River Rep when it was at the Ivoryton Playhouse, run by her parents Evan Thompson and Joan Shepard.
Concluding the season will be William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, Or What You Will," directed by Tresnjak, who is also ending this season in May by staging Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Tresnjak, who has a reputation as a director of the Bard's works, says he plans to produce a Shakespeare production every season for the foreseeable future. "Twelfth Night" will run May 16 to June 16.
Subscriptions are now on sale. Single tickets go on sale on sale this summer.. Information: 860-527-5151 and www.hartfordstage.org.


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Who Says Breakin' Up is Hard to Do?
With all due respect to Neil Sedaka, breaking up isn't really that hard to do, and sometimes it can be a good thing. No, I'm not talking about the tragic end of an Accordance for iPad initiated church romance, but the breaking up of a large commentary set into individual volumes. That's just what we've done with the recently released New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT). Now you can purchase and download individual volumes instead of having to buy the entire set at once. Obviously, you'll pay more if you buy the series piecemeal, but those of you who only want certain volumes now have the freedom to buy the ones you need without having to spring for those you don't. We'll even give you an extra 10% off if you buy three or more volumes at one time. Go here to purchase individual volumes of NICNT (or other commentaries), and here to purchase the entire set.
Also, don't forget that our Back-to-School sale ends tomorrow. If you've been wanting to buy or upgrade an Accordance package, now is the best time to save some serious coin.
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Well played, sir.
Will Varner
I was pleased to see the NICNT offered by Accordance, but even the good introductory price was a little steep. As soon as you broke up the set, I ordered both the old Adamson and the new McKnight volumes on James! Thanks for including both volumes in this release.


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Portable Assembly: Attached Folding Panels (no tools)
For nearly two decades, Intro Table Top Displays have been the perfect choice for a flawless, re-configurable portable display. Known for its strength, exceptional alignment, and customizable panels, the "two-sided" Intro Fabric Display performs beautifully in the most demanding trade show schedule.
Choose from over 20 Velcro-compatible colors, including a different color on each side. All Intro Table Tops have adjustable feet and most pack in roto-molded cases with wheels. Select from 3, 4, or 5 panel folding designs, many with headers. Made in the USA.
Table Top Systems
It depends on the table top system.
With the exception of a few Intro Table Top designs, which are built exclusively for 8 ft. tables, all the tabletops will fit both 6 ft and 8 ft tables. Most, however, fit better on an 8 ft. table, which allows for addtional space for literature and promotional products.
See the Table Throw Gallery for a wide selection of printed and unprinted throws.
A full-size table throw covers all four sides of the table, where an economy size throw will cover 3 sides leaving the back of the table open.
Classic Exhibits Inc. warranties the performance of its portable, modular, and custom hybrid systems during normal use, excluding excessive wear and tear, as per the instructions. This covers the workmanship and locking systems as long as the exhibit has a useful life. All remaining parts are covered against defective materials or workmanship as long as the exhibit is in service. The warranty is transferable should the product be sold or assigned to another party.
The manufacturer cannot be held responsible for damages due to abuse, misuse, or shipping damages. This warranty does not cover laminate cracks and chips, wood crate and roto-molded case damage (excluding workmanship), aluminum extrusion scuffs, mars, and scratches from normal use, and graphics wear and tear or misuse. The manufacturer is not responsible for lost or missing parts once the owner has assembled, accepted, and used the product.
Should there be any questions regarding the warranty, please contact your local Classic Exhibits Distributor.
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Even as "Jonah Hex" continues to slowly drift towards the bottom of the box office, Megan Fox will find her way back on-top again -- she has wings, after all.
Fox next appears in an independent film "Passion Play" alongside Mickey Rourke where she will have a new take on the leading lady.
"My character is out of a traveling freak show," Fox said recently. "She has bird wings that sprouted out of her back in puberty. And it's this very bizarre, strange relationship they have."
Somehow I can imagine Rourke being a wings kind of guy, showing us new range as he goes from a down-on-his-luck Russian scientist in "Iron Man 2" to being a down-on-his-luck trumpet player in this modern film noire.
The movie buzz will only build up for the apparent fall release in the wake of apparently leaked photos purported to be Megan Fox topless on the set.
Now that she no longer has to deal with Michael Bay and those pesky robot movies, Fox is able to turn her attention to new creative outlets. The 24-year-old starlet suggests she'd be into producing movies. "If I were able to I'd like to get into that sure," she said.
But we'll never see her behind the camera. "I'm definitely not directing," said Fox. "I have absolutely no skill that suggests I would be able to do something like that."


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them leading goal scorers make grim readingKone on the Same 8Gomis on 14needs to hit the ground running like Jelavic
Loved a bit of Jelavic.Unique in his talent in that every second touch he took was a pass to the opposition.
WOW tucked for maximum tan! Look good that in white shorts pulled up aka Dave Thomas
Jelavic was a cracking poacher ruined by Moyes making him try and play football.
I like the fact Sam doesn't say which cup, give our crack negotiating team a bit of breathing space.
There's more to his game than scoring goals.He's seems like he's a very good all round striker.If you're expecting a 20 goal man you're probably going to be dissapointed.
Just 20? I want him beating Harry Kane's calendar year record this year.
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